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Cat-Griz 2020 Round 2 - Skyline Sports

Colter_Nuanez56 said:
https://twitter.com/skylinesportsmt/status/1230939728456761344?s=21
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Jared's story is such a good one. I saw his dad play. I've watched Jared play this season. Every game I wish him an abundance.
 
- this other article focuses on the unknowns. Griz have been riding on Pridgett and Manuel's back.
. . . Saturday night at Brick Breeden Fieldhouse, the second Cat-Griz matchup will likely have a very different feel than the first. First, the unknowns: Will Montana guard Timmy Falls and Montana State guard Harald Frey play? Falls injured his right ankle in Montana’s win over Idaho State last week and did not return to the game. Frey will have far less time to recover, as he seemed to injury his ankle as well during a road game at Portland State on Thursday. During the first matchup between the two teams, Frey scored 37 points and was close to eclipsing the single game Dahlberg Arena scoring record.

If Frey or Falls cannot go, it will put a little bit of a damper on the game, but it still is, after all, Cat-Griz. “Sometimes I feel like this game is more important to the state than maybe all our other games,” Montana head coach Travis DeCuire said. “So you kind of feel a little pressure to win this game, but at the same time it’s a positive energy, we look forward to it, that’s why you put on the Griz jersey, is to put yourself in this type of environment and run."
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. . . other storylines coming into the second matchup of the two Treasure State schools is whether or not both teams' big men will get into early foul trouble again.Montana State forward Jubrile Belo — who is averaging 17.6 points and 6.3 rebounds over the last three games — was limited to just 13 minutes against the Grizzlies on Feb. 1. Belo accumulated two fouls in just five first-half minutes and had four for the game.

He also missed all four of his shot attempts, though that’s a rarity for the sophomore from London, England. Belo has made at least two field goals in every other game this season and the game against Montana was the only time this year he’s been held scoreless.

“Teams are guarding him differently, teams are trying to be really physical with him and for the most part he’s done a really good job keeping his composure and keeping to the task at hand … He’s our most analytical thinker on the team,” Bobcat head coach Danny Sprinkle said. “If I ask the team a question, he’ll have some responses where I’m like, man, this joker gets it. He’s super, super thoughtful and a deep thinker. He’s a really good player, he’s physical, he’s super athletic.
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:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: 19 wins in the last 20 games
BOZEMAN, Montana — The environment could not have been better but the Bobcats could never harness it. Instead, the Grizlies made sure recent history continued to repeat itself. Perhaps the best shot making Saturday night came when Joey Thompson hit a full-court heave with his contest clock winding down to win $11,111. While Thompson’s unbelievable full-court chuck caused the near sellout crowd of 6,570 at Brick Breeden Fieldhouse to lose their minds, the energy maintained for the duration of the second half.

Montana State announced its recently anointed Big Sky Conference champion women’s basketball team early in the action. The arena and campus was already abuzz after MSU scored a rivalry record 92 points in a 14—point win over the Lady Griz to kick off Cat-Griz Saturday. With four minutes left in the first half of the men’s game, Montana State’s football team paraded the Great Divide Trophy around the Fieldhouse floor, rubbing in the four-game winning streak the Bobcats have built on the gridiron over the Grizzlies. Thompson ignited the crowd again, even earning a high five from MSU head football coach Jeff Choate, a certified Griz killer thus far in his four-year stint in Bozeman

And an arena clad in blue & gold topped with throwback white Universal Athletic Service hats kept cheering through the announcement of Montana State’s Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2020, a group featuring former New England Patriots linebacker Dane Fletcher, the lone Bozeman native to ever play in the Super Bowl.
Every time Montana State mounted a run or tried to seize the momentum — like Amin Adamu’s tomahawk dunk with 14 minutes left to cut the Griz lead to 37-34 or Harald Frey’s nine-point outburst in the span of less than two minutes late in the game — the steely Griz looked just like the two-time defending Big Sky Conference champions they are.
When the final buzzer sounded on one of the most electric nights the Brick has seen in recent years, the result was remained the same as the rest of the decade.
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